Donald Trump

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

Are the evangelicals who voted for Trump and stormed the Capitol in his defense part of the fringe of evangelicalism, or the core?

Once, abolitionists had to imagine a world without slavery. Can we similarly envision a world where migrants are offered justice?

The residence staff, many of whom have worked there for decades, balance their service of the First Family with their long-term loyalty to the house itself.

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.

Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

The impeachment exposed the need for Republican leaders to banish the extremists and bigots from their movement.

The Trump administration tried and failed to accomplish a count of unauthorized immigrants to reshape Congress, the Electoral College and public policy.

As Presidents' Day approaches, historians look back at the most notable recent uses and misuses of "the Great Emancipator's" words.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

The neoclassical building was inspired by European shrines to imperial power.

Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.